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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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No, he had been in Devonshire a fortnight.
He had no pleasure at Norland; he detested being in town;
He valued their kindness beyond any thing, and his greatest happiness was in being with them.
his pleasure at seeing them in London,
when he was to congratulate her on the acquisition of a brother?
her not finding London agree with her.
Why they WERE different,
GAUCHERIE
much less to any natural deficiency, than to the misfortune of a private education; while he himself, though probably without any particular, any material superiority by nature, merely from the advantage of a public school, was as well fitted to mix in the world as any other man.
the house was small and indifferent;
Delaford living could supply such an income, as anybody in his style of life would venture to settle on —
Edward reading prayers in a white surplice, and publishing the banns of marriage between John Smith and Mary Brown,
conceive nothing more ridiculous.
he should see Marianne no more.
perhaps, at first accidentally meeting, the vanity of the one had been so worked on by the flattery of the other, as to lead by degrees to all the rest.
a well-disposed, good-hearted girl, and thoroughly attached to himself.
not only to be better acquainted with him, but to have an opportunity of convincing him that he no longer resented his giving him the living of Delaford —